Free Game of Shadows by Ernest Dempsey Page B

After a few seconds, several links appeared on the first page. One featured a video. Others were links to websites containing information on the subject. His eyebrows furrowed as he frowned and clicked on one of the blue links. "How is it that so many people know what this thing is, and I've never heard of it?" he wondered aloud.
    The website appeared on his screen, and he started reading about the odd device the Nazis had tried to develop. Most of what he was seeing was conjecture. Some people believed that die Glocke was some kind of a UFO that Hitler had created in order to spread his would-be Aryan nation throughout the cosmos. Other theories stated that the device was designed as a means of time travel. One of the more interesting ideas Sean noted was the notion that die Glocke could manipulate space-time, creating a wormhole around itself and essentially disappearing from the current dimension.
    According to the website, the tests for the device happened at a place called Der Riese near the Wenceslas mine in Poland, fairly close to the Czech border. The story suggested that the Third Reich murdered many of the scientists working on the project when things began to go south for the Germans. Apparently, they didn't want anyone sharing their research or any findings with the enemy.
    In the text, Sean noticed mention of something called, " The Henge," which was described as a circle of concrete columns that may have been used to anchor the device. He held the book down and flipped to the page where he remembered seeing something similar to that description. Sure enough, the more Sean looked at it, the more the circle looked like a kind of Stonehenge. But why ?
    He did a quick search for the location of the Wenceslaus mine and set a waypoint on his phone's map. After putting the book back in his rucksack, he got up from the table and started walking back to the car he'd left in front of Ott's apartment building.
    It took nearly fifteen minutes for him to get back to the sedan. He hadn't realized how far the guy in the red shirt had taken him through the city when he was in pursuit.
    Sean opened the vehicle and set the rucksack in the back seat. He slid into the driver's seat and adjusted the settings before firing up the engine. Sean wasn't a car guy. He loved motorcycles and had a small museum's worth of them back in Atlanta. Often people asked him if he just collected bikes or if he actually rode them. He found the question to be annoying, but always responded by telling people the only reason to own a motorcycle is to ride it. He didn't have them on display for the public or anything like that. They were kept in a safe place, in his massive garage below the house.
    But even a motorcycle guy could appreciate the sound of the BMW's motor as it revved to life. It brought a subtle grin to his face as he gripped the wheel and shifted into drive.
    He was stopped before he could take off. The familiar vibration of his phone going off in his pocket caused him to shift the car back into park, killing the momentary thrill of anticipation.
    "What have you got, Tommy?"
    "I'm doing fine, thanks. Weather here in Atlanta is awesome right now."
    Sean shook his head and briefly considered hanging up on his friend, except that he loved the smart aleck response. "Great. Good to know. Tell me something."
    "We're still researching the submarine thing. That might take a while, but there are some promising angles the kids are looking into. As far as die Glocke is concerned, you could have done an Internet search to find out some interesting things about that. "
    Sean snorted but tried not to be demeaning. "Already did that, buddy. I'm headed to Poland right now to see what I can find."
    "Oh, good. So you were just going to drive out to Poland to see what you could find? It's not that small of a country, you know." Tommy was laying on the cynicism pretty thick. It was a staple in their friendship.
    "No, smart guy. I have a general location. The